Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19 Test for Use Almost Anywhere
Source: Bloomberg
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as 5 minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting. The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of the coronavirus genome, which can be detected in as little as five minutes when its present at high levels. A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes, he said.
The U.S. has struggled to supply enough tests to detect the coronavirus, even as the outbreak threatens to overwhelm hospitals in New York, California, Washington and other regions. After initially restricting testing to high-risk people, and problems with a test designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. regulators have rushed out diagnostics made by the worlds leading commercial-testing companies.
This is really going to provide a tremendous opportunity for front-line caregivers, those having to diagnose a lot of infections, to close the gap with our testing, Frels said. A clinic will be able to turn that result around quickly, while the patient is waiting. The technology builds on Illinois-based Abbotts ID Now platform, the most common point-of-care test currently available in the U.S., with more than 18,000 units spread across the country. It is widely used to detect influenza, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus, a common bug that causes cold-like symptoms.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/abbott-launches-5-minute-covid-19-test-for-use-almost-anywhere
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)Maybe the numbers will be reported correctly now, and not fudged by the Chump-toadies.
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)femmedem
(8,208 posts)Here in Connecticut, we've slowed testing not only because of a lack of tests, but also because we're short on masks, etc. We're also faced with the impossible choice between having all hands on deck treating patients and diverting health care workers to testing.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)gab13by13
(21,408 posts)rurallib
(62,451 posts)then put it in a warehouse........
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Jared in charge. He will keep it off the market until his brother's company develops their own, expensive, money making brand. After all tRump is not running this country, Jared is.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)The entire personal premise of Donald Trump is not data but lies and fabrication. Anyone who praises Donald Trump is either perpetuating his lies or responding to threats.
ypsiguy
(67 posts)Antimycin A might be a possible candidate for an antiviral drug for SARS CoV2 (COVID-19). It's shown good activity against alphaviruses, which are also RNA viruses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857800/
Red Pest
(288 posts)That the corresponding author, David Miller or someone from that group at UM, is looking into the ability of antimycin A to inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2.
Some nice work by this group of microbiologists, natural product chemists, and physicians.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Flooding this country with quick testing, and it also would help determine who has already had it, and be able to work again. Trump needs to direct this, but he won't because he only cares about himself . He's to busy tweeting starting conflicts and using insults and accusations and lying instead of working. Trump caused this into being this bad now, no one else did, and still causing it to worsen with his petty insults from his insecurities and politicizing this pandemic. Trumps using it as a weapon now.
Bayard
(22,168 posts)Medical device companies do.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Making numerous companies produce these tests in massive numbers in a shot time, but trump isn't smart, so that's unlikely from trump. The real leaders now our Governors need to take over for failing trump. Trumps too lazy to do anything now, showing how incompetent he is, and corrupt. He's intentionally hurting these dr's and nurses and all other first responders , and putting their lives at risk, just like he ignored warnings this was coming, because he's lazy, ignorant, and didn't care, and still doesn't. These first responders will remember who failed them and our country when the election gets here, so will all of the American people. His lies won't work , we all have tv and the internet, and know the truth who caused this.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)Trump on Coronavirus: "I'm Not Sure Anybody Even Knows What It Is"; "You Can Call It A Germ, You Can Call It A Flu"
Bayard
(22,168 posts)Now, trump can't try to string us along on it.
5 to 13 minutes. I can live with that!
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Hed have immediately tweeted that he had ordered it so as to claim credit. Much like the GM scenario.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Produced penicillin during the 1940s
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)At Abbott.
Most have been there a long time & say it's a good place to work because of their focus on innovation & willingness to experiment.
These are all very decent people so I believe them
Nice find on the penicillin thing!
Rube Icon
(78 posts)JudyM
(29,280 posts)BarbD
(1,193 posts)At what point does the virus present at high levels?
Still, it's better than what we have now. -- or don't have now.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)run and produce an accurate result.
logme
(27 posts)I wonder how many of those rushed products will actually be reliable and how available they are going to be.